Appeal No. 2002-1308
Application No. 09/161,787
establishing a loan participation database containing member
data pertaining to each of said plurality of network members and
loan criteria data specified by each of said plurality of network
members;
receiving a loan participation offer from an offering
network member, said loan participation offer including offering
network member data and loan participation data pertaining to a
loan opportunity;
searching said loan participation database in response to
said loan participation offer for matching loan criteria data
matching at least a portion of said requested loan data, and
obtaining matching member data for at least one matching network
member associated with said matching loan criteria data;
providing said matching member data for each said matching
network member to said offering network member;
receiving a selection of at least one selected matching
network member from said offering network member;
providing a loan participation offer to each said selected
matching network member in response to said selection of each
said selected matching network member;
receiving a response from at least one interested selected
matching member;
providing interested network member data pertaining to each
said interested selected matching member to said offering network
member in response to said response from each said interested
selected matching member.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
Mark Tebbe, "If bankers can use the internet to make big bucks,
why can't you?," InfoWorld, vol. 19, no. 39 (September 29, 1997),
p. 152. (Tebbe)
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